Boy, that would be a really big undertaking! I think it would be fun. We joked around the pool table about wouldn’t it be great if we crawled the web, found all the images and ran OCR on all the images on the web. That would be a lot of work.

I think it would be a fine idea, but I’m not sure if you should count in the short term from Google.

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